Hello all, I havent posted much lately but I recently came back from holidays and found a huge drain on my site from a robot called picsearch.com. This site's robots used up over 1gig of bandwidth searching my amazon module for.. i guess pics..lol in one month!! Well any site that does not limit how much they pull from me is not a robot that I want.
I have added a entry to my .htacces to deny any hits from picsearch.com.. but my question is this.. How can i add this site and all it's robots to my .htaccess without doing a general entry like this:

Code:

deny from picsearch.com

What I am worried about is that apache will have to try and resolve to the domain name for every visitor to the site, and from what i understand is that this slows down apache. I can find an ip but will this block all spiders from picsearch?.. eg. spider1.picsearch.com, spider2.picsearch.com etc

Thanks in advance, oh and Raven if this is in the wrong place please move, thanks again.

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Add PicSpider/1.1 to your harvester blocker and write to htaccess.
This is only one 1 IP:inetnum: 217.212.224.128 - 217.212.224.255
netname: SE-PICSEARCH
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DJ, I completely understand how to calculate CIDR's, but thanks. Yours is the more precise/correct CIDR to use. When I started looking up the 900+ domains in their name servers, I just went for overkill. Use the /25 as DJ has mentioned.

Thanks Djmaze
For those who have problems to understand the cidr´ s I found a helpful site with examples and some pictures for better understanding.
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